The main way to solve the issue of collaborative tasks is to assign them to multiple people. This is quite cumbersome and not very collaborative, so there’s a better way. What would you do? Create in 5 people’s to-do lists the task of “giving permissions to X platform”? What about if someone does the task? The others will still have that task on their to-do list. For example, someone new arrives at the company, and you have a nice Power Automate that creates all the necessary tasks to get the person up and running. What if you have a task that needs to be performed, but any of X number of people can do it.

You have separate islands with tasks with only a few connecting pieces between them. The mindset is that you have something and you “delegate” something to someone else. There are many to-do lists out there, and some enable you to share or attribute tasks to other people, but these can be quite limiting. Today we continue to learn some of the fundamentals in Microsoft’s Services, this time in Planner regarding task attribution and collaboration.

Tasks by planner and todo